Receives Quotes

274 Receives quotes by 233 unique authors

I won't defile my blessings by imagining that I deserve them. Until every human receives the dignity I casually enjoy, I pray my heart aches… — Jen Hatmaker
A mind does not receive truth as a chest receives jewels that are put into it, but as the stomach takes up food into the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a person is A) poorly, B) receives treatment intended to make him better, and C) gets better, then no power of reasoning known to… — Peter Medawar
Frightening media messages...pervade the news business, which really ought to be called "the bad news business" for its preoccupation with disaster and destruction. In broadcast… — Michael Medved
Love mistakes, as it’s us that receives blessings from them in the end. — Minzy
The mountain receives our expressions and becomes part of us; we imprint our memories upon it and trust it with out dearest divisions of out… — Bruce Barcott
The divine gift is ever the instant life, which receives and uses and creates, and can well bury the old in the omnipotency with which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The tragedy of feminine design is that it receives so little official support. Most of the world's design schools, having been organized by men, encourage… — Tom Turner
Sure as the most certain sure .... plumb in the uprights, well entreated, braced in the beams, Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical, I… — Walt Whitman
Whatever you teach, be brief; what is quickly said, the mind readily receives and faithfully retains, everything superfluous runs over as from a full vessel. — Horace
That's why it has to be a nonprofit, because a nonprofit is required to take monies it receives and use them for the purposes for… — Mitchell Kapor
Happy the man who never puts on a face, but receives every visitor with that countenance he has on. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The public has more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it. — Cato the Elder
In Giving, a man receives more than he gives; and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given. — George MacDonald
A man never feels more important than when he receives a telegram containing more than ten words. — George Ade
The rationalist mind has always had its doubts about Venice. The watery city receives a dry inspection, as though it were a myth for the… — Mary McCarthy
A community receives light from its history, it becomes aware of itself by remembrance of its history. — Muhammad Iqbal
I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his past and from… — Gerald Scarfe
An encouraged person will eventually get his drive from encouragement; he becomes more dependent. A person that never really receives encouragement learns to move out… — Criss Jami
He who asks to receive his daily bread does not automatically receive it in its fullness as it is in itself: he receives it according… — Maximus the Confessor
Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain… — Ellen Key
Principles are like seeds; they are little things which do much good, if the mind that receives them has the right attitudes. — Seneca the Younger
Every man is received in heaven who receives heaven in himself while in the world, and he is excluded who does not. — Emanuel Swedenborg
The average American teenager sends or receives 75 text messages a day, though one girl in Sacramento managed to handle an average of 10,000 every… — Pico Iyer
My day starts with Radio 4's Today live or 'listen again' wherever I am in the world, thanks to digital radio - I even have… — Peter James

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